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The home site for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M UniversityThu, 30 Jul 2015 20:07:40 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3Early Modern Digital Agendas Summer Institute at the Folgerhttp://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/06/22/early-modern-digital-agendas-summer-institute-at-the-folger/
http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/06/22/early-modern-digital-agendas-summer-institute-at-the-folger/#commentsMon, 22 Jun 2015 15:29:02 +0000http://idhmc.tamu.edu/?p=1822Today, Jonathan Hope introduced us to the tools made by the Visualizing English Print project, beginning with Ubiquity, a tool that allows you to perform word frequency calculations resulting in a csv file as well as to create html pages of your plain-text files that visualize the occurrence of the word. Using Shakespeare’s [...]]]>Today, Jonathan Hope introduced us to the tools made by the Visualizing English Print project, beginning with Ubiquity, a tool that allows you to perform word frequency calculations resulting in a csv file as well as to create html pages of your plain-text files that visualize the occurrence of the word. Using Shakespeare’s plays, people visualized using pen, paper, clay, tape, and sticks.

[pictures coming soon]

I uploaded 7 ECCO-TCP texts to the tool

and got some interesting results, searching for the cateogries “Love,” “Secresy,” and “Money.”

Here is a resulting HTML page:

]]>http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/06/22/early-modern-digital-agendas-summer-institute-at-the-folger/feed/0DLF Features Feminists and Critical Studies / Race Theory speakers!http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/06/11/dlf-features-feminists-and-critical-studies-race-theory-speakers/
http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/06/11/dlf-features-feminists-and-critical-studies-race-theory-speakers/#commentsThu, 11 Jun 2015 14:48:02 +0000http://idhmc.tamu.edu/?p=1816The Digital Library Federation is focusing its conference on speakers who work in the fields of Digital Humanities and libraries, as well as feminism and critical race studies. Interestingly, they are all women, a major intervention in the all-male-panelists phenomenon that is getting so much press in the news lately.

You can see the lineup of amazing [...]]]>

The Digital Library Federation is focusing its conference on speakers who work in the fields of Digital Humanities and libraries, as well as feminism and critical race studies. Interestingly, they are all women, a major intervention in the all-male-panelists phenomenon that is getting so much press in the news lately.

You can see the lineup of amazing speakers at the DLF site: http://www.diglib.org/archives/8808/

Thank you to the libraries who participate in DLF for broaching social justice issues and doing so with scholarly rigor.

Postdoctoral Research Associate Timothy Duguid's post on BigDIVA as a research alternative to traditional search engines.

Grumbach at TCDL Minute Madness

Grumbach introduces her poster on EEBO full-text searching.

Christy on eMOP at TCDL

Lead Software Applications Developer Matt Christy reports on the eMOP project at TCDL

The IDHMC has participated in a number of local conferences this spring, including the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium Conference held at the University of Texas at Arlington as well as the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries at the University of Texas in Austin. Project Director Liz Grumbach gave posters at both conferences, one that focused on the ARC software tool TypeWright and the other on full-text searching for EEBO (Early English Books Online) texts now possible through the work of the eMOP project. Lead Software Applications Developer Matt Christy gave papers at both conferences, one with Jennifer Hecker that discussed the eMOP project and its potential utility for OCR-ing fanzines, and the other that reported the findings of the eMOP project and explored potential opportunities for future OCR development and implementation. Finally, Postdoctoral Research Associate Timothy Duguid had posters at both conferences, one that introduced BigDIVA (Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application) as a research alternative to more traditional search engines and one that showcased BigDIVA’s ability to turn searches into research.

]]>http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/05/21/idhmc-at-local-conferences/feed/0Announcing forthcoming publications from Director Laura Mandellhttp://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/04/28/announcing-forthcoming-publications-from-director-laura-mandell/
http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/04/28/announcing-forthcoming-publications-from-director-laura-mandell/#commentsTue, 28 Apr 2015 14:18:58 +0000http://idhmc.tamu.edu/?p=1746 Laura Mandell, Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, here works with two forthcoming “publications,” one virtual, one a bit more solid: today, the advance copy of her Blackwell Manifesto called Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital [...]]]>
Laura Mandell, Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, here works with two forthcoming “publications,” one virtual, one a bit more solid: today, the advance copy of her Blackwell Manifesto called Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age arrived in the mail, and it rests on a wrack beneath the big screen. Using the big screen available at Texas A&M’s Humanities Visualization space, Mandell is manipulating “BigDIVA,” the Big Data Interactive Visualization Application,” available in beta form at bigdiva.org. BigDIVA provides a new way of searching the ARC Catalog: ARC contains all the materials currently searchable via NINES.org, 18thConnect.org, MESA-medieval.org, and SiRO, and BigDIVA allows for searching through these items in a new way. The single-authored manifesto will be available in June (May in the UK), and the collaboratively authored BigDIVA visualization tool will be formally released in November at North Carolina State University, during a meeting of ARC (the Advanced Research Consortium). Stay tuned!

Assistant Professor Laura Estill discusses the benefits of simultaneously examining multiple editions of a text, using Cotgrave's The
English Treasury of Wit and Language.

Estill on Cotgrave

Professor Estill compares annotations between different physical copies of Cotgrave.

Duguid on Trends in Visualization

Postdoctoral Associate Timothy Duguid showcases a new visualization of literature that mentions Edinburgh.

Grumbach encourages students to attend

IDHMC Project Director Liz Grumbach in the lobby encouraging students and staff to attend the Viz Day events.

On April 15, the IDHMC hosted our first Visualization Day, which showcased the work of Texas A&M faculty and researchers. We were pleased to have participants from Archaeology, Digital Humanities, English, Performance Studies, and the Libraries in the event.

]]>http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/04/16/visualization-day-2015/feed/0CFP – IDHMC Summer DH Technical Assistance Grantshttp://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/03/30/cfp-idhmc-summer-dh-technical-assistance-grants/
http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/03/30/cfp-idhmc-summer-dh-technical-assistance-grants/#commentsMon, 30 Mar 2015 19:33:04 +0000http://idhmc.tamu.edu/?p=1715IDHMC is accepting applications for summer technical consultation and support for digital humanities projects. See the Call for Summer DH Technical Assistance 2015 flyer for details on how to apply.]]>IDHMC is accepting applications for summer technical consultation and support for digital humanities projects. See the Call for Summer DH Technical Assistance 2015 flyer for details on how to apply.
]]>http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/03/30/cfp-idhmc-summer-dh-technical-assistance-grants/feed/0Humanities Visualization Day – April 15http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/03/30/humanities-visualization-day-april-15/
http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/03/30/humanities-visualization-day-april-15/#commentsMon, 30 Mar 2015 18:55:27 +0000http://idhmc.tamu.edu/?p=1711The Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture is hosting a Humanities Visualization Day in its Humanities Visualization Space (HVS) featuring presentations by faculty and post-doctoral fellows on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. For details and the schedule of presentations see the HVSDay-Schedule flyer.]]>The Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture is hosting a Humanities Visualization Day in its Humanities Visualization Space (HVS) featuring presentations by faculty and post-doctoral fellows on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. For details and the schedule of presentations see the HVSDay-Schedule flyer.
]]>http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/03/30/humanities-visualization-day-april-15/feed/0IDHMC Announces Formation of Advisory Boardhttp://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/01/21/idhmc-announces-formation-of-advisory-board/
http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/01/21/idhmc-announces-formation-of-advisory-board/#commentsWed, 21 Jan 2015 17:28:26 +0000http://idhmc.tamu.edu/?p=1613The IDHMC is pleased to announce the formation of an advisory board to provide feedback, input, and guidance on IDHMC projects, structure, and initiatives.

The IDHMC is pleased to announce the formation of an advisory board to provide feedback, input, and guidance on IDHMC projects, structure, and initiatives.

The following faculty members have agreed to serve on this board: Richard J. Golsan, Bruce Herbert, Craig Kallendorf, Tim McLaughlin, Daniel L. Schwartz, and Nancy Warren. See IDHMC Advisory Board for brief bios for each of the board members.

]]>http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2015/01/21/idhmc-announces-formation-of-advisory-board/feed/0Dr. Laura Mandell, “Imminent Demise or Potential Rejuvenation?: The Future of the Scholarly Monograph”http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2014/11/17/mandell-imminent-videos/
http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2014/11/17/mandell-imminent-videos/#commentsMon, 17 Nov 2014 15:01:15 +0000http://idhmc.tamu.edu/?p=1555On November 12, Dr. Laura Mandell, Professor and Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University, presented at Texas A&M her talk, “Imminent Demise or Potential Rejuvenation?: The Future of the Scholarly Monograph” originally given as a keynote address at the recent ARL forum Wanted Dead or Alive – [...]]]>On November 12, Dr. Laura Mandell, Professor and Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University, presented at Texas A&M her talk, “Imminent Demise or Potential Rejuvenation?: The Future of the Scholarly Monograph” originally given as a keynote address at the recent ARL forum Wanted Dead or Alive – The Scholarly Monograph.

Dr. Alex Gil, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Libraries, took a break from the ARC semi-annual meeting being held at Texas A&M to give a talk at the Glasscock Center on “Praxis and Sustainability: building social structures in digital humanities.” The talk was a fascinating hour and [...]]]>

Dr. Alex Gil, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Libraries, took a break from the ARC semi-annual meeting being held at Texas A&M to give a talk at the Glasscock Center on “Praxis and Sustainability: building social structures in digital humanities.” The talk was a fascinating hour and 20 minutes. It’s been split up here into 3 videos.